Now that the the article has your attention...let it be noted that the headline is misleading. They aren't actually doing anything to "time itself" in
a "fabric-of-reality" sense. Rather, they are fine-tuneing and synching the way time is measured.

A leap year here, a leap second there...who makes these calls, and what can happen in an extra second? Probably nothing too exciting, although the way
we measure and synch time is interesting in its own right, simply because it always seems to be more complex than you (or me, at least) might guess at
first glance.

There was probably a team of experts working tirelessly with a budget of, say $10 million, and a further budget of $100 million to sway the officials
in over governments whose team has used up only $9 million

.. and of course ATS blames the Illuminati for having the cash and the USA for the wobbles

I distinctly recall them doing this last year or maybe the year before. Silly human scientists thinking they can hold
back time :shk: . I am actually still waiting for them to get rid of daylight savings time as well. They should work on that next.

Misleading subject lines should be grounds for total thread deletion. "Saucer spotted in woods" should be about UFO's and not about a little plate
found buried in the dirt. "Scientists to hold back time" should be about time travel and nothing else. No S&F here.

Originally posted by SloAnPainful
Yeah time is a concept created by man, as stated by a previous poster. There is no time in space. And what kind of scientific term is that anyhow?
"Wibbly wobbly". I mean come on...

Our calendar is #. It makes no sense and sucks ass. Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday. Where's the variety? Whatever a
civilizations calendar is, it shapes the whole consciousness of the society. Hence why we are so ass #ing backwards. Some asshat named pope gregory
instituted the gregorian calendar in the 17th century. We're STILL following it. Hey if it ain't broke don't fix it right? Jose Arguelles has
proposed a 13th month calendar more in tune with the lunar cycles. I think we should have a calendar more in tune with natures cycles rather than
blatantly opposing them. Makes for a very non harmonious existence.

Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe
I could have sworn that they did this last year too??

Maybe I had a time slip

I distinctly recall them doing this last year or maybe the year before. Silly human scientists thinking they can hold
back time :shk: . I am actually still waiting for them to get rid of daylight savings time as well. They should work on that next.

The Earth is slowing now that is a fact. Now by how much you ask.
Well you tell me. I have been all over the net and I get anything from 2 milliseconds per century up to 1 second every 18 months.

As to how long until a full stop? Well again the numbers are all over the place From 140 million years all the way up to (now hold on) 1.9 trillon
years so the sun will blow up before the Earth does a full stop.
I find it funny that the number are so messed up and all over the place. It is crazy. I think evey one is just guessing.

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